June 10, 2020

Sheraton Boston Hotel

Melonee Wise
CEO
Fetch Robotics

Melonee Wise is the CEO of Fetch Robotics, which provides collaborative robots for the warehouse and logistics industry. Melonee was the second employee at Willow Garage, a research and development laboratory specialized in robotics. While there, she led a team of engineers developing next-generation robot hardware and software. Melonee was a 2015 recipient of MIT Technology Review's TR 35 award for technology innovators under the age of 35. In 2017, Business Insider named her as one of eight CEOs changing the way we work. Under her leadership, the company won the MODEX Innovation award for the materials handling industry, as well as being named to RBR 50, a listing of the 50 most innovative robotics companies in the world. Fetch Robotics is a 2018 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.